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Saturday, April 30, 2011

april UFO: still a UFO

Well, I predicted this mid-month, but here it is the end of April and my UFO for the monthly challenge is nowhere near finished.

Yes, I still have today, but I think if I sat and did ONLY that for the next 11 hours (until midnight), I'd have sore fingers and a STILL unfinished UFO. So I'm throwing in the towel and I'm okay with that.

Two square corners complete, and a third (partially) pinned and ready to go. Pieces cut and ready for the remaining one square and four triangle corners.

(For scale, those squares are cut 17" and I used a dime as the template for the yellow flower centers.)

I'll keep working on it in spare moments. Now that it's started again, I really want to finish it. Even if I have no idea what I'll do with it when it's done.

I hope the UFO chosen for May is simpler so I'll gain some time to work on this. And I hope Judy doesn't have something fantastic to give away this month for those who finish because, though I never win, I sure don't want to miss out on the chance either!

And now, instead of working my fingers to bleeding on this, I'm going to go work on the "gargoyle" quilt and see if I can get that into a top!

You got a lot finished!!! You certainly should NOT feel bad for not completing this UFO in one month's time. It's a spectacular quilt that demands a LOT of work and will be amazing when you finish it. You don't want to shortchange it by rushing through the work. :)

I think you accomplished a lot! Hand applique takes way more time than it seems like it should (for me anyway). The important thing is that you moved it forward by a bunch, and that it's going to be lovely!

Your quilt will be stunning - we all have some of these as UFOs for a reason, for sure. I had to take two months to finish a much simpler one in March than yours, so just keep working away at it. Enjoy the process ... easy ones will come up!